Inventor of Britain: The Complete Works of Humphrey Llwyd

邓比郡的汉弗莱·利维德（1527-68）是威尔士文艺复兴时期的领军人物之一。他关于威尔士和英国地理的地图和论文受到荷兰伟大的地图集制作者亚伯拉罕·奥特留斯（Abraham Ortelius）的赞赏和印刷。他是第一本关于整个不列颠岛的历史和地形的书的作者，他创造了“大英帝国”这个决定性的词；他的工作为一个统一、广阔的英国国家的愿景奠定了基础。他的藏书至今仍保存在英国的一个中央机构——大英图书馆的中心。在他死后的几十年里，他在英格兰和威尔士的文学影响是显著的。他在联合王国之前设想一个统一的英国，影响了包括威廉·卡姆登、埃德蒙·斯宾塞、迈克尔·德雷顿和约翰·迪在内的英国作家。他的独特的威尔士地图Cambriae Typus一直印刷到18世纪。为大卫·鲍威尔的《坎布里亚历史》（1584）提供了基础，利尔维德的中世纪威尔士历史在200多年里一直是标准版本。还没有版本的Llwyd的作品集，和他的大部分作品从来没有一个学术版的主题。在这个权力下放和公投后的时代，当英国国家的身份及其组成国家之间的关系仍在紧急审查时，Llwyd的作品可以为我们当前困境的根源提供独特的见解。他的著作和他的地图的学术而又易于理解的版本将极大地帮助新的方法和他的遗产。这个项目的目的是用一个新的版本作为工具，在多元民族文化中还原Llwyd和他对英国的看法。该项目的基础是产生新版本所需的学术工作。虽然Llwyd的语料库并不庞大（六部作品总计约105,000字，两幅地图），但它包括英语，拉丁语和威尔士语的印刷和手稿来源，以及许多地图的印刷变体；除了抄写、整理和翻译的任务外，编辑团队还将专注于为Llwyd的作品提供所需的文本设备和注释。该项目旨在通过在大英图书馆举办的研讨会和一卷随笔，进一步产生有关利怀德及其遗产的学术工作。该项目还旨在吸引学院以外的更广泛的受众。它假设Llwyd的愿景，首先体现在他的地图上，对英国公众成员来说是潜在的和吸引人的，对威尔士居民来说是进一步的具体相关和兴趣。该项目的产出将包括可公开访问的交互式数字版本的Llwyd地图，这些地图存放在威尔士国家图书馆的网站上，该图书馆已经在其推广和教育活动中使用了Cambriae Typus。该项目将与威尔士的教育中心合作，让学生和其他社区组织参与到Llwyd对威尔士的愿景中来，利用他的地图和文本作为跳板，想象威尔士现在和未来的形状。在博物馆举办的公众展览和公开讲座将进一步帮助人们了解李氏的作品与当今的关系。PI是一位文艺复兴时期的文学学者，对Llwyd和他同时代的人有着既定的记录；这两个CIs在威尔士史学和中世纪/早期现代制图（包括数字方法）各自的专业知识。提议的PDRA 1，谁将负责转录，威尔士-英语翻译，和Llwyd的文本作品的初始注释，是一个经验丰富的学者和16世纪威尔士文本的编辑。拟议中的PDRA 2负责对Llwyd的地图进行基于gis的分析，最近获得了地理学博士学位，具有将数字方法应用于前现代地图的经验。

Humphrey Llwyd of Denbighshire (1527-68) ranks among the leading figures of the Welsh Renaissance. His maps and treatises on Welsh and British geography were admired and printed by the great Dutch atlas-maker Abraham Ortelius. Author of the first book on the history and topography of the entire island of Britain, Llwyd coined the fateful phrase "the British empire"; his work provided the cornerstone for an emerging vision of a unified, expansive, British state. His remarkable book collection still lies at the heart of one of Britain's central institutions, the British Library.In the decades after his death, Llwyd's literary influence in both England and Wales was remarkable. His vision of a unified Britain, in advance of the union of the crowns, influenced English writers including William Camden, Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, and John Dee. His distinctive map of Wales, Cambriae Typus, remained in print well into the eighteenth century. Providing the basis for David Powel's Historie of Cambria (1584), Llwyd's history of medieval Wales remained the standard version for over two hundred years. There is as yet no edition of Llwyd's collected works, and the majority of his writings have never been the subject of a scholarly edition. In this post-devolution and post-referendum era, when the identity of the British state and relationships among its constituent nations remain under urgent review, Llwyd's works can provide a unique insight into the origins of our present dilemmas. New approaches to Llwyd and his legacy will be greatly aided by a scholarly yet accessible edition of his writings and his maps. This project aims to use a new edition as a vehicle to resituate Llwyd and his vision of Britain within multiple national cultures. The project's foundation is the scholarly work required to produce that new edition. Although Llwyd's corpus is not immense (six works totalling c. 105,000 words, and two maps), it includes works in English, Latin and Welsh in both print and manuscript sources, and numerous printed variants of the maps; in addition to the tasks of transcription, collation, and translation, the editorial team will focus on furnishing Llwyd's works with the textual apparatus and commentary they require. The project aims further to generate scholarly work on Llwyd and his legacy through a symposium at the British Library and a volume of essays.The project also aims to reach a wider audience beyond the academy. It posits that Llwyd's vision, embodied above all in his maps, is potentially accessible and engaging for members of the British public, with further specific relevance and interest for inhabitants of Wales. The project's outputs will include publicly accessible and interactive digital versions of Llwyd's maps, housed on the website of the National Library of Wales, which already employs Cambriae Typus in its outreach and educational activities. Collaborating with the Education Centre at the NLW, the project will engage school pupils and other community organizations with Llwyd's vision of Wales, using his maps and texts as a springboard to imagine the shape of Wales in the present and future. A public exhibition accompanied by public lectures at the NLW will further assist in highlighting the relevance of Llwyd's works for the present day.The PI is a Renaissance literary scholar with an established record of work on Llwyd and his contemporaries; the two CIs have respective expertise in Welsh historiography and medieval/ early modern cartography (including digital approaches).The proposed PDRA 1, who will be responsible for the transcription, Welsh-English translation, and initial annotation of Llwyd's textual works, is an experienced scholar and editor of sixteenth-century Welsh texts. The proposed PDRA 2, with responsibility for GIS-based analysis of Llwyd's maps, is the recent recipient of a PhD in Geography with experience in the application of digital approaches to pre-modern maps.